Deactivating automatic mesh while importing geometry

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ufifilters@123
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Deactivating automatic mesh while importing geometry

Post by ufifilters@123 »

Hi Folks,
I am new user of Elmer and struggling in initial phase of using this tool.
It would be great if anyone from the community can help me in following issue currently i am facing.

As we know that while importing any geometry into Elmer GUI, it starts meshing same with default meshing parameters.
Due to this, elmer is getting crashed when a multi feature object is imported. I don't know what is the reason behind this, if i am importing incorrectly or is there any other way to import.
I think "Terminate meshing" option is there but it is disabled and i don't know how to enable it.

Pls help if any one can.

Thank you in advance.
kevinarden
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Re: Deactivating automatic mesh while importing geometry

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Very few use Elmer to import geometry and mesh. Most users are using gmsh or salome.
https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physic ... dElmer.pdf covers both of these tools.
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Re: Deactivating automatic mesh while importing geometry

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Thanks a lot for the advice. I will work on it.
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Re: Deactivating automatic mesh while importing geometry

Post by saekit »

Another option is to edit share/ElmerGUI/egini.xml. Automatic start of meshing is turned off by changing <automesh> property in the xml file from 1 to 0 as shown below.

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  <automesh> 0 </automesh>
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